Olympic Opening Vancouver

The 21st Winter Olympics opened in Vancouver on Friday
night, Feb 12, amid pomp and pageantry at the famous BC Place.
Canadian Governor-General Michaelle Jean, Prime Minister
Stephen Harper, Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC)
president John Furlong and IOC president Jacques Rogge were
among the 60,000 people who attended the grand opening
ceremony broadcast live around the world.

Before the ceremonies, aboriginal youth from the First
Nations -- a term used to describe Canada's native
people before the Europeans came here -- welcomed the
guests to the mega sports show.

The opening celebration was marred by sadness over the
the death of 21-year-old competitor Nodar Kumaritashvili
from Georgia who died after a crash while training at Whistler.

The GCP event was set for four hours beginning at 6 pm local
Vancouver time (02:00 to 06:00 GMT). The result is Chisquare
14237.623 on 14400 df for p = 0.831 and Z = -0.957.

It is important to keep in mind that we have only a tiny
statistical
effect, so that it is always hard to distinguish signal from
noise. This means that every "success" might be largely
driven by chance, and every "null" might include a real
signal overwhelmed by noise. In the long run, a real effect
can
be identified only by patiently accumulating replications of
similar analyses.